Introduction:
Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) simplify the execution of dynamic business policies. In the past, when business policies changed, engineering was notified and the new policies were implemented in the next revision of the software some number of months into the future. This time-frame was not acceptable to e-commerce companies which see changing conditions and policies on a daily, if not hourly, basis. The answer to this problem was to create a system in which the business policies are encoded seperately from their execution. The algorithm that provides this answer is the Rules Engine, the heart of a BRMS.
BRMSs go beyond just a Rules Engine by assisting the development and maintenance of the Business Rules, by assisting the deployment of rules to runtime Rules Engines where the rules are put into effect, and by tracking the usage and performance of the rules and these Rules Engines. BRMSs usually consist of the following components:
- The Rules Engine: The calculational heart of the BRMS.
- The Rules Editor: The interface where Rules are developed and modified.
- The Deployment Manager: The interface where Rule Sets are deployed to runtime Rules Engines.
What Makes EWA Systems' BRMS Better...
- EWA Systems' Complete Business Rules Management System
- The Rules Engine: EWA Systems' HyperRETE(TM) Rules Engine
- Scalable, Efficient, Small-Footprint Runtime Engine
- Extreme Performance: Blazingly fast, up to 1200x faster then its top competitor's.
- Standards-Based: EWA Systems' Rules Engine is JSR-94 and RulesML compliant.
- Scalable: From embedded to clustered architectures.
- The Rules Editor: EWA Systems' Complete Rules Editor
- Supports Multiple Rule Definition Languages: Define Rules How You Are Most Comfortable Improving Your Efficiency And Reducing Your Errors
- Rule Validation: The Rule Wizard Pre-Validates Rules Minimizing Rule Definition Errors and Greatly Simplifying the Rule Definition Process.
- Rule Search: Searches Rules and Discovers Possible Rule Conflicts Before Deployment.
- Rule Flow: Conditional, Serial and Parallel Rule Flows Are Easily Captured By The EWA Systems' Rule Flow Interface.
- Complete Real-Time Rule Debug and Testing Environment: Create, Test and Optimize your RuleSets Prior to Deployment.
- The Deployment Manager: EWA Systems' Powerful Deployment Manager
- Runtime Monitoring and Management: Hot Deployment of Rules and Real-Time Monitoring of Rules Engine Performance.
- Total Rule-Usage Profiling and Logging: Track The History and Usage of Every Rule and Rule Flow Across All Deployments.
- Additional Features
- Componentized Graphical User Interface: Presents A Common, Uniform Interface
- Intuitive Customizable Design: Modify to Your Preferences
- Usable as an Application, as a Client-Server Application, or over the Web via a HTML interface.
- Components Can Be Used, Individually or In Combination, To Build Your Own Interface.
- Comprehensive Security System: Protects Your Data and Rules
- User/Password Role and Permission-Based Security
- User Messaging System: Simplifies and Accelerates Workflow Management
- Tight Integration with Enterprise Analytics: Data Mining and Optimization
- MetaRules(TM): Define High-Level Business Goals, Leaving Maintenance of Underlying Operational Rules to the Expert System, and Further Reducing Rule Maintenance Costs (See Below)
- Real World Data includes Uncertainty and Missing Values: Analytical Models Remedies Problems Resulting in More Robust, More Capable Rules Engine. (See Below)
MetaRules™: Let your Business Goals define their own Business Rules
Rules Engines simplify the alteration and deployment of policy changes across an enterprise, but fail to take advantage of all the information you already have. Fixing this problem, EWA Systems' Rules Engine introduced MetaRules™, which encode your higher-order business goals without all of the mundane details. MetaRules™ are implemented with EWA Systems' comprehensive analytical suite, which includes the world's most accurate optimization and data mining technologies. The benefit of MetaRules™ is that your business policy will become more efficient and responsive, while also greatly reducing maintenance and analytical efforts. The right customers will be pitched the right offers. The most profitable customers are acquired and sustained. Your portfolio's growth is maximized.
Real World Data Includes Uncertainty and Missing Values
While Rules Engines are great in conditions where all of the relevent information is known, this condition is hardly ever true in anything but the most controlled circumstances. EWA Systems' Rules Engine is integrated with its data mining and decision suppport solutions, which allows the Rule Engine to optimumally work under the uncertain conditions resulting from the missing information.
Performance
The standard RETE algorithm that underlies all rules engines results in performance that is linear with the number of rules, the number of facts, and the complexity of the rules related to their number of conditions. This is the base performance that should be expected of any rules engine. EWA Systems' rules engine goes beyond this standard of performance by realizing and taking advantage of rule and fact commonalities, especially those inherent to rule tables and trees. With these optimizations, EWA Systems' maximizes the performance of a rules engine in both speed and memory.
Competitors
We are confident you will find our BRMS outperforms our competitor's. We invite you to check their products out and make the comparison: